Trevi Fountain

Rome Day 1

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May 12th 2005
Well i know why my flight to Rome was so cheap as the airport i needed in Paris is 70km away........i was up at 5.10am to catch a bus by 6am to fly out at 9.10am what an event. I finally hit the city of Rome at 12.30am and a bit tired at that, the trip was good though sat next to a dutch girl all the way from paris and then all the way to Rome we had breakfast togeather and and exchanged numbers n ... read more

Europe » Italy » Lazio » Rome

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more